I haven’t looked much into him yet but he checks a lot of good boxes.
Is he someone that leftists could back?
Is there any dirt that people have dug up that I’m not aware of?
If we wanted to champion him, could the leftist orgs unify and help him?
Do I sound like a dirty reformist(God pls no)???
Thoughts? Opinions?
“Ronald Reagan was a freedom fighter in terms of supporting our Jewish bros & sis in the Soviet Union & opposing vicious forms of communism” - West
He’s not wrong in that. The USSR did some Nazi-esque shit to Jews. Just at a slower pace.
In these instances it’s better to ask for source so that upon their failure we can throw quotes like “My source is that I made it the fuck up!”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
While the USSR certainly didn’t target Jewish folk as aggressively as the Nazis, that’s not really the bar for being horrible.
I’m not USian, so take this with a tablespoon of salt. My understanding is that he had some awful takes about AES countries in the past (seems to be better in some respects now, but I’m not sure to what extent). He seems like the least bad candidate by a wide margin (although that’s not saying much), but I’d still be cautious about investing too much effort into electoralism – of course, an anti-imperialist is not going to be allowed to win, so it all depends on whether the movement surrounding him can be used to prepare for revolution, e.g. if it’s going to work with indigenous movements, the African People’s Socialist Party, etc.
As shit as the US political system is it’s always nice for an outside perspective. If you can find anything about his last AES opinions can you send them my way? I might have to do my own dirt digging.
Reason I decided to even post this question was that our current front runners for Dem and Rep are so awful that, and maybe I’m being rarely optimistic here, but maybe there could be a chance for a 3rd party candidate to make some waves, if not get elected but our system is clearly rigged for the 2 parties we have: Fascist and Fascist Lite(now with more 10% more rainbows).
Thanks!
there’s this
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I think he knows better now, but this is an astoundingly terrible take. If you’re interested, he’s doing recurring interviews on Revolutionary Blackout Network (they seem overly optimistic about him, so listen critically)
Critical support for him, he has no chance but if he brings some people to the left it will be worth it.
He is not a socialist or a principled anti-imperialist and he is definitely not going to win, but he has the potential to split the Democrat vote enough that they could lose which would piss off a lot of liberals and create a lot of chaos in the upper ranks of the empire. That is a good thing for us as anti-imperialists. So yeah, critical support for him, i think leftist orgs definitely should champion him under the condition that when/if he drops out they do not endorse that his supporters switch their vote to the Democrats. Voting third party is good for destabilizing the control that the entrenched neolib/neocon duopoly has in the US.
Something something a vote for a third party is a vote for Trump (or whomever the republican tube of toothpaste is next election) You must vote for the democrat tube of toothpaste (Biden flavoured!) and then, most importantly Do absolutely nothing for the four years. That’s the only way to make sure your voice is heard!
It’s not like elections change anything, but at least he’s a presidential candidate acknowledging the Indigenous population and their demands as well as actual anti-racist policies like reparations. He has some cringe takes and will never get elected, but elections in the USA are just excuses to show ads and at least he’ll show some different ones. I’m pretty sure whoever is the Republican will win the election unless Biden dies of a heart attack and lets somebody at least halfway popular run instead, not that it’d change much. He did an interview on Red Nation if anybody wants to hear what he has to say straight from his mouth without having to trudge through newscorps. Don’t expect much though.
I don’t really see Biden running again but that could easily push Kamala as the Dem frontrunner unless they really do pull something out of their back pocket(not like the phony Bloomberg bullshit last time) to get votes. If Kamala is their pick then Reps are probably gonna get it this time easily. That’s just my hot take without diving too much into it though.
Also it’s cool to see indigenous persons as activists. I like slowly getting introduced to these new channels of info I wasn’t previously aware of.
He’s actually already running though it’s such a deflated campaign that you probably hadn’t heard of it. There will also be no debates in the primaries as far as I’ve heard, so the DNC is just handing it to him.
The announcement video is pretty funny though. “DING… DING… DING… DING… FREEDUM!”
“Let’s finish the job”
What, nuclear apocalypse? Climate disaster? Straight up handsmaid’s-taleing women now that Roe was overturned under your senile ass? Finish the job, pfft. Motherfucker.
